if you are using Windows 2000, then you can create a tunnel between two remote servers by creating
- a demand dial interface
- static routes on both servers, pointing to that demand dial interface
Configure your clients to use the server as default gateway and if they try to ping a server in the remote network, after a few seconds (after establishing the tunnel) you will be able to access the remote site
This works in both directions
Also, if you want to browse each other's network, you can even set up 1 Windows 2000 network, and let AD replicate using the VPN tunnel;
you can set up WINS to do netbios name resolution over subnets, and access shares across the VPN
but all of this will only work if both sites are in different IP subnets. I have not failed, I just found 10000 ways that don't work
Peter Van Eeckhoutte
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